Climate science in the Age of Unreason

When:
October 2, 2019 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
2019-10-02T18:30:00+01:00
2019-10-02T21:30:00+01:00
Where:
The Old King's Head
King's Head Yard
Borough High Street
London SE1 1NA
Cost:
Free

Climate Scientist Dr Ben McNeil, from the University of New South Wales, discusses misinformation and how to tackle it in the click-bait driven environment of social media and weaponised mistrust.

With a group of medical researchers and journalists, Ben set out to tackle the spread of online misinformation by founding Metafact.io in 2018. In this month’s talk, Ben discusses the important background issues and explains the evolution of Metafact as a source of evidence-based information to help individuals and societies in the so-called post-truth era.

Ben McNeil is an Oceanographer and Climate Scientist in the Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW, Sydney, with a Masters in Economics.  He has been a passionate science communicator for over 20 years and is the author of “The Clean Industrial Revolution” which makes the economic and scientific case for a low carbon economy.

Full details at https://pubsci.info/